JEHOSHAPHAT was the son of Asa and king of Judah in the early part of the ninth century B.C. He seems to have been a subordinate ally of the house of Omri ; his son Jehoram married Ahab's daughter Athaliah, and he himself took part in Ahab's fatal expedition to Ramoth-Gilead and in the attack on Mesha, king of Moab by Jehoram, king of Israel. He engaged in distant trading enterprises, but his attempt to establish a fleet at Ezion Geber (near the modern Akabah) ended in failure. The Chroni
cler adds an account of an attack on Jehoshaphat by a joint army of Moabites, Ammonites and Edomites, in which the king of Judah was completely victorious (II Chron. xx.; I Kings xxii. 41 sqq.).